Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] little as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development work continued and in about 1980 they began to launch a series of compact lamps , with tube diameters as little as 16 mm , in novel and innovative shapes and sizes . |
| 2 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 3 | Such systems usually comprise rows of back-to-back adjustable pallet racking up to 12 metres high and separated by gangways as little as 1.2 metres wide — and rarely more than 1.9 metres wide . |
| 4 | The racking is constructed on a back-to-back principle up to 20 metres high with intervening gangways as little as 1.5 metres wide . |
| 5 | Rehearsals went on as usual every morning but in order to disturb the other passengers as little as possible , they had to get up very early and work in a screened-off area . |
| 6 | Move your arms as little as is necessary to achieve your purpose , and always move them together so that if the front hand is knocking down an incoming punch , the rear is executing a counter-punch . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , this provided for the possibility of voluntary unemployment , an anathema to the capitalist class , and so the conditions under which men 's claims to maintenance from the state were met were such as to weaken male work incentives as little as possible , and ideally to discourage men from making a claim at all , except in the direst circumstances . |
| 8 | In many crops as little as 0–5 litres/hectare is effective and this permits oil-based formulations to be used economically and increases the persistence of deposits after rain . |
| 9 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 10 | ‘ He speaks to the others as little as possible . |
| 11 | There is ample room in that account of the situation for the further stipulation that the judge should decide in a way that engages his own political or moral convictions as little as possible and gives as much deference as possible to institutions conventionally authorized to make law . |
| 12 | The senior members of the team in each discipline should be switched to other jobs as little as possible as they must have an on-going responsibility for their area . |
| 13 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |